Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513295578
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896) is a collection of poems by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published while Dunbar was at a turning point in his career as one of the nation’s leading black poets, Lyrics of Lowly Life combined his hugely successful volumes Oak and Ivy (1892) and Majors and Minors (1896), establishing his reputation as an artist with a powerful vision of faith and perseverance who sought to capture and examine the diversity of the African American experience. In “The Poet and His Song,” Dunbar compares the art of poetry to tilling the soil, a slow and painstaking process requiring full commitment, body and soul, to the task at hand: “My days are never days of ease; / I till my ground and prune my trees. / When ripened gold is all the plain, / I put my sickle to the grain. / I labor hard, and toil and sweat, / While others dream within the dell; / But even while my brow is wet, / I sing my song, and all is well.” For Dunbar, the reward is the song itself, both an act of labor and a celebration of life, emphasizing the role of the poet as not just a dreamer, but a doer. Throughout this collection, Dunbar explores the role of the poet in society, grounding each poem within his identity as a black man in America. In “Frederick Douglass,” an elegy written for the occasion of the great man’s passing, Dunbar makes clear the consequences of pride and defiance in a nation built by slaves: “He dared the lightning in the lightning’s track, / And answered thunder with his thunder back.” With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Lyrics of Lowly Life is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sport of the Gods" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher: G.N. Morang
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Presents the 1913 edition of African-American writer Paul Dunbar's collected poems and adds sixty poems to it, also providing variants, selected primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index of first lines.